Archive for the ‘Climbing Techniques’ category
Let’s face it, we all want to climb well. The feeling of nailing a hard route is second to none. To achieve consistent results, it’s essential to learn those climbing techniques, do that training, eat and sleep right. Here’s where we share the knowledge to help you get there. If you have climbing techniques, diet tips or training advice that you would like to share, drop us an email at: gareth(at)rockclimbinguk.co.uk.
Nick Bullock on Gogarth North Stack
Boreal have arranged for us to interview their sponsored climber, Nick Bullock. Having given up his full-time job in 2003, Nick has been chasing his dream climbing and mountaineering all over the world. While he is probably best known for his impressive ascents in the greater ranges, Nick’s traditional climbing portfolio would make the arm [...]
Tom Randall on Training for Crack Climbing
Beta Climbing Designs, the UK importer for Sterling Ropes, have arranged for us to interview their team climber Tom Randall. Tom, along with Pete Whittaker are best known as the Wide Boyz! Tom has worked extremely hard over the last two years in a cellar in Sheffield honing his crack climbing skills. His specialising in this form [...]
Magnus Midtbo on Climbing Training
As part of our training series, Magnus Midtbo has kindly allowed us to interview him on the different training techniques he uses to help him climb some of the hardest routes in the world. Having climbed 9b and consistently placed in the top 3 in international competitions, Magnus is no stranger to training hard. Recently [...]
Preparing to Climb Everest
Climbing Everest is so much more than the 20 minutes spent on top of the world. An Everest expedition is an accumulation of many months, even years of preparation. The expedition is a journey which requires sourcing finance, attaining the relevant climbing experience and developing an appropriate level of fitness. Developing appropriate fitness for Everest [...]
Follow 5 Climbers: Try and Achieve Their 2012 Targets
As part of our training series of articles, we have decided to put the principles into action and see if we can help a group of climbers achieve their goals for the year. We have started by looking at things like their diet, body fat levels, current training structure, current climbing grade, strengths and weaknesses, [...]
Steve McClure on Training Power Endurance
As part of our training series this week we are going to focus on power endurance. Often overlooked by many climbers, training power endurance, is critical to getting you up most UK sport routes where the hard sections are usually no more than 10 to 30 moves. Steve McClure needs little introduction to most climbers. [...]
Turbo Charged New Year’s Training Resolutions
With the arrival of the New Year, now’s a perfect time to plan your rock climbing objectives for 2012 and develop a training program that will help achieve them. These objectives can be anything from doing your first E1, increasing your climbing grade from 7a to 7c or doing a specific route. Using a Scoring [...]
Dry Tooling At The Foundry, Sheffield
I’ve done plenty of seasons ice climbing over the last 13 years, I’ve done gully’s and ridges in Scotland and the Lakes, climbed Water Ice in Norway and in the Alps, but so far I’ve never done any of serious mixed climbing, sure I’ve torqued an icy crack on a buttress when the ice has [...]
Why you should always pay attention when belaying …
It’s happened to us all, we get distracted at the crag or the wall when we’re belaying & our concentration is no longer on the climber…but on the distraction. The majority of these instances end with us quickly switching our focus back to where it should be and no harm is done. Sometimes, we’re not [...]
Fear of Failing or Failing from Fear?
I am something of a failure. There, I said it. On a number of occasions in the last year I have failed to achieve something through fear, most notably last year, while in Snowdonia I failed to reach the summit of Tryfan. It wasn’t through lack of fitness, or desire to reach the top and [...]
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